We finished reading War and Peace the other day. Boy, talk about an anticlimactic ending. In the second half particularly LT starts prognosticating on motivation and agency and he can't seem to stop himself.
I read in a newspaper from 1930 last week that when he was a child his older brother declared he had discovered the solution to the misery of the world and had put it on a stick which he had buried at a crossroads. LT was immensely excited and wept with joy. I am not sure why he didn't run and dig it up but what he did do when he died was get buried in the same place as the stick.
The above reads like it was written by an idiot. I did that on purpose.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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It was read with a fair amount of idiocy too, I can assure you. Looking forward to your summation of Faulkner's work.
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